Electricity might have kicked off the steam and coal engines from the railway maps, but imagination and old tales still keep their fires burning! Chugging trains meandering on long serpentine tracks, whistling away a song to the wind and smoking out all the way- a picture-postcard moment, one must admit! Coal engine and Steam engine trains have featured in many an Enid Blyton novel amongst other great masterpieces. They say people never tire of two things- elephants and trains. They sure didn’t get the fact wrong!

The World in the future is an alluring thing that man has thought and written about for a long time. Things change, people change and the world changes too! Will we plant ourselves on the moon? Will we have to be carrying oxygen cylinders to breathe from? Will the tigers become extinct? A million questions buzz around in our heads as we analyze this! In a very philosophical point of view, the world in the future is something that mysteriously pulls us towards itself, thereby intriguing us and making us interested in what is to come!

The world’s single greatest boon and bane takes the guise of plastic. With usage varying from large-scale manufacture of polymers and their associated PET bottles to our simple-everyday used covers, plastic menace has sure stung the world! Although extremely convenient and cheap to buy and use, plastic, being non-biodegradable, poses a severe health hazard to the environment. One has to consciously try and reduce the plastic usage so as to save our earth!